Today's Features

“You wrote that the New Testament teaches that Christ is superior (and replaces) the Mosaic system of law, priests and the temple. Will that old, limited system be re-instituted sometime in the future?” — Nick

The Mosaic Law is at the core of the history of Israel. It shaped the identity of the nation, forming the basis of its deep religious traditions, politics and ethics.
The sacrificial and priestly system provided a means for expressing repentance, receiving forgiveness and restoring relationships with God and fellow man.
These functions were acknowledged for their importance by Jesus and by first-century Jews who had converted to Christianity (Mt. 5:17-20; 7:12; Gal. 3).

Today
The monthly Los Alamos county GOP meeting will be at 7 p.m. in the third floor conference room of the Best Western Hilltop House Hotel. The topics of the meeting will be the new Los Alamos County polling places, voter registration training and meeting of the GOP candidates running for local offices. All registered Republicans are invited to attend.
Friday
Suzanne Vilmain will give a lunchtime gallery talk/walk through her book arts exhibit/installation, “Bound Under the Influence.” Books, broadsides, artists’ books, ephemera, books in all formations. Get a sneak peek at losalamosnm.us/library/Pages/ArtGalleryExhibits.aspx.

On April 28, the Los Alamos Youth Leadership program will put their skills to the test with the annual LAYL Wild Day.
The funfest, which is limited to the first 100 participants, will be from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. at Los Alamos High School’s Griffith Gym.
“Janali Gustafson and Haley Bridgewater have taken the leadership role in organizing WILD Day,” said LAYL Coordinator Susan Odegard-Fellows.” They both are dedicated to LAYL and making WILD Day a success.”
Odegard-Fellows is in her second year with the LAYL crew and is enjoying it every step of the way. “Working with the LAYL students gives one hope for the future leaders of tomorrow,” she said.

Great Conversations is an afternoon of appetizers and desserts and an in-depth conversation with a subject-area expert.
Los Alamos Public Schools will host the Third Annual Great Conversations from 2-4:30 p.m. Sunday in the new building at Los Alamos High School.
Tickets are $50 per person and can be obtained by filling out a registration form at lapsfoundation.com/greatconversations.shtml. Three of the 14 tables are featured here.
Steve and Tiffany Anton will host, “FIRST Things First: What is FIRST Robotics?” The ultimate multi-disciplinary engineering topic: robotics. The Antons will share their passion for First Robotics, which was the brainchild of the inventor of the Segway.

“A serious, thought-provoking work of substance, quality and class … ‘Shadowlands’ speaks of this world as being a prelude for what will follow and how pain is the inverse of joy …” said Jeff Lyons of CBS Radio, describing the British play written by William Nicholson.
Nicholson, a former BBC documentary film producer, has written several award-winning screenplays.
His first work for the stage, “Shadowlands,” won the 1990 London Evening Standard Best Play Award. This script is the basis for the 1993 movie featuring Anthony Hopkins and Deborah Winger.

Zane Bennett Contemporary Arts announces a video installation and exhibition of prints by Santa Fe artist Mitchell Marti. Also showing are works that reflect Baltimore artist Soledad Salameé’s passion for the Earth’s natural resources. The shows open April 27 and continues through May 18. The reception will be from 5-7 p.m. at the gallery, 435 S. Guadalupe St.

Concerts

Lacuna Coil and Otherwise will perform at 8 p.m. Sunday at the Sunshine Theater. Tickets, $20, are available at sunshinetheaterlive.com.

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers will perform at 7:30 p.m. April 28 at The Pavilion. Tickets, $27-$97, are available at ticketmaster.com.

NEW YORK (AP) — The 16-year ratings dominance of NBC’s “Today” show, one of television’s most epic streaks, has apparently ended.
The Nielsen Co. said Monday that ABC’s “Good Morning America” beat NBC’s morning show last week by a razor-thin margin of 13,000 viewers — and ABC owes Tim Tebow a hearty thank you.
The “Today” show had won 852 consecutive weeks in the ratings, a streak that began in December 1995 when Bryant Gumbel and Katie Couric were the chief anchors.